Sentence examples for Undermined potential from inspiring English sources

Some economists have argued that the crisis itself undermined potential by starving innovative companies of financing and driving some workers, whose skills have atrophied from long spells of unemployment, out of the labour force.

Last month, the lead company in the power line project, Xcel Energy, said that delays in the project — blamed on Mr. Bacon and his lawyers — had undermined potential development of solar power in Alamosa.

Other important themes drawn out here are: isolation, powerlessness, failure, regret, undermined potential and the way feelings are experienced.

Undermined by internal weaknesses, Parthia finally succumbed, leaving its great dreams to its successors, the Sāsānids.

SURFACE IS UNDERMINED Thoroughfare, Left Like Shell, Endangers Emergency Trucks -- Water Service Goes On.

"How the Scots Saved Civilization, or Possibly Undermined It" could be this show's subtitle.

Undermined by amnesties and weakened by military offensives, surrenders and internal purges, the insurgency withered in the following years.

Zaid al-Ali, "The Struggle for Iraq's Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy" (Yale University Press).

Undermined during the credit boom, as the firm's head, E. Stanley O'Neal, became isolated and paranoid, he resigned his position in 2005 (but stayed at the firm).

Oversight Undermined Race officials have always done their best to hide fatal breakdowns, erecting screens around fallen horses and then refusing to disclose the tracks' accident rates.

Barbara Ehrenreich's "Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America" has a smiley-face balloon on its cover.